Absalom had just ordered this on the zombie generals to hunt down the remaining Dragon Riders.

"Hunt them down wherever they may run and bring them before your master!" he commanded. "A few miserable pirates are no match for your strength."

His eyes then turned towards a zombie pirate, who looked as if he was dead drunk.

"Hey, can you pull it together just for once, Captain John?" Absalom asked. "At least try to live up to the reputation you had when you were alive."

"Aye, aye, sir," said John as he walked away. "On my way."

"Insufferable lout," Absalom huffed.

"Master Absalom," said a smooth, silky voice that sent a twinge of fear down the back of his spine. "Let's get married."

Stepping into the light was a pink warthog in a wedding dress with a pair of the sharpest tasks imaginable.

"Lola!" Absalom panicked. "Damnit, get over there and fight with the others zombies! Your commander orders you!"

"You have to marry me first," said Lola.

"Hell no!"

Lola apparently would not take no for an answer and quickly shut the doors behind them, and to make them even more nervous, she began locking them.

"Come on now, Lola, let's not rash," said Absalom

Lola merely turned to face him, making him even more nervous.

"Do as your master commands and play nice, all right?"

"Sure, if you marry me," she said, approaching him.

"Are you insane?" Absalom yelled as he slowly backed away from her. "I am a human, you fool, I am marrying another human, and that's the end of it!"

He then discovered that he had backed up towards a coffin, and he began sweating in buckets as Lola took several more steps towards him.

"Come on, think about it for a second, Lola. You're a warthog; also, your dead and rotting, not exactly a match made in heaven."

"Look," said Lola, pointing.

Absalom turned to what she was pointing at but saw nothing. A split second later, she grabbed his hand, Pulled out a sheet of paper and dabbed his finger with red ink. She then attempted to slam his hand on top of the paper, but he quickly realised what she was planning and then quickly pulled his hand away just in the nick of time.

"Wow, that was close," said Absalom and then quickly put some distance between him and her. "Okay, let's calm down and stop touching. And that's a marriage certificate, isn't it? Y-you, take that thing back where ever you got it from!"

Lola just licked her lips. "I don't care what you're saying, but keep moving those sexy lips. Kiss me! I love you, baby!"

She then dashed towards him, pressing her lips together; he quickly jumped to the side, avoiding them.

"You behave!" Absalom ordered. "I'm not letting some animal carcasses haunt me for the rest of my life."

"Bridal Martial Arts: Marriage Bound Kiss!" Lola yelled, launching herself at him.

Absalom quickly began backing away, dodging her kisses as if they were poison.

"How about this? Sweetie Pie, Hug!" she yelled, stretching out her arms.

Absalom quickly jumped out of the way before she could grab him.

"I love you to death!" she yelled, chasing after him.

"Well, you're already dead, so that takes care of that, doesn't it?"

"I may be dead and rotting away, Master Ab, but I swear my love is eternal, baby. Now marry me!"

"I told you 1000 times you're a beast!" he yelled as he raised his fist, which was a mistake.

Lola quickly grabbed his arm. "I'll take that finger. Thank you!"

She then brought his finger down towards the marriage certificate, but he was able to free himself from her grasp and then grabbed her. With all his strength, he then performed a perfect suprax, quite a feat considering that Lola weighed a ton.

Absalom then attempted to crawl away, but Lola quickly recovered and was now jumping towards him.

"You're not going anywhere!" she yelled and gave a perfect body slam.

"Bridal Martial Arts: Love Sign Attack!" she yelled, grabbing his wrist and then pulling out the marriage certificate. "Certificate Seal!"

"No!" Absalom yelled once again, freeing himself from her grasp, and then kicked her off of him.

"All right, Lola, you've got to listen this time!" Absalom demanded. "I've already found my bride, she may have a short temper and some bothersome friends, but at the end of the day, she's human and alive! And that is all that really matters!"

Lola laughed as she picked herself up. "You're just going to get rejected again."

"Oh, look," said Absalom holding out Astrid's wanted poster. "She's one of the pirates that running amok on the island. I'll capture her when we capture the rest of the crew."

"Not if I can help it!" said Lola as her eyes burned red hot. "I'll find her and finish her off!"

Lola then ran off with Absalom chasing after her.

"No!" he cried. "No, stop ruining my life! Lollllaaaa!"

Hiccup and the others, meanwhile, were still making their way through the corridor.

"I bet that old guy was right, and Moria has been watching us this whole time," said Eret. "We've got to keep our eyes peeled for traps, or else we'll end up like our cook. We're missing almost half our crew; it wouldn't surprise me if Moria was trying to split us up."

Oinkchuck chuckled.

"I'm still shocked that they grabbed Ragnar without any of us noticing," Toothless frowned. "Hard to believe that we found one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea out here."

"My question is, what are we going to do if one of our shadows gets stolen?" Eret asked.

"Well, that would be interesting," said Heather.

"Well, don't look at me. I'm not squealing," said Oinkchuck.

"And I promise that old man that I would beat up Moria, but right now, my main priority is to look out for my crew," said Hiccup.

"I can't tell you where your friends are, but where ever they are, they're in for a world of pain," Oinkchuck laughed. "But I wouldn't worry about them; you're not much better off yourselves. You'll see."

Hiccup then punched him. "You're only here to guide us; we don't need any of your commentary, got it?"

"Yes, sir."

Toothless started as he thought he sensed something behind, but when he looked around, he saw nothing but an empty corridor.

"Something wrong?" Eret asked.

Toothless frowned. "No, just my imagination."

They then continue to make their way down the corridor, unaware that they will be watched by a pair of red eyes.

"Hey, Treacle… Treacle!" said Perona.

Treacle nodded without saying a word, knowing that Perona hated it when he talked.

"The Risky Brother should be delivering the coffin as we speak. Pick up from them and take it straight to our master at the dance hall. Got it?"

Treacle just stood there without saying a word.

"Did you hear me? Don't just stare!"

"Yes," said Treacle.

"That's gross!" Perona snapped angrily. "I told you not to talk! I'm heading to the Dragon Riders' ship to clean out their treasure collection while they're busy with all the zombies. Let me know if anything strange, okey dope?"

Treacle nodded.

"There you go, you're much cuter when you keep that ugly mouth shut," she said as she walked away.

"Take care out there," Treacle mumbled under his breath.

Perona turned on him. "Hey, did you just mumble something at me?"

Treacle was about to say something but then immediately shook his head.

Meanwhile, the Risky Brothers, the two zombie squirrels, were carrying the coffin containing Astrid and the others across a bridge to the main mansion.

"Heave ho! Heave ho!" they cried repeatedly.

"Coming through with the delivery for our master!"

"Uh-huh!"

They then tricked, causing them to drop the coffin, causing the lid to fall off.

"Oopsy, we dropped it!"

"Oh my, that's bad. Whatever will the master think if it's broken?"

The Risky Brothers then noticed for the first time that the coffin lid had fallen off.

"Oh no, the lid came off!"

"What happened?" Chopper groaned as he regained consciousness.

"Oh crap, they're awake! We're screwed! Let's kill them, hurry, hurry!"

"Killing them is bad."

"Okay, half kill them, half dead!"

Chopper looked up and saw the two squirrels jumping at him, each holding small axes. He then quickly turned to his human form and easily knocked them back. He then quickly ran up to Aston and the others as they, too, slowly regained consciousness.

"Guys, we're okay," he said to them. "Wake up!"

One by one, they sat up, a little dazed but otherwise alive.

"But wait? That guy, he cut us," said Snotlout confused.

"Not quite; he struck us with the back of his sword," Astrid explained.

"Looks like it rained since we were knocked out," Fishlegs noted, noticing the damp grass. "The ground is a bit wet. So where are we?"

"All I know is that we're outside now," said Chopper and then pointed to the Risky Brothers. "And those little squirrel guys drag us here in that coffin we were just in."

"Holy crap, it really is a coffin! I didn't notice!" Snotlout yelled, noticing it for the first time.

The Risky Brothers then regained consciousness and saw that all before them were wide awake now.

"Oh, turds, all of them are awake now!"

"Let's book it; we need backup!"

The two of them immediately dashed off.

Astrid then took notice of their surroundings. "I see; they brought us to the back of the mansion. I think Hogback's lab is on the top floor, so they took us pretty far. It's probably good we woke up when we did."

"Look behind us," said Chopper noticing the main mansion. "There's an even bigger building on the other side."

"Huh, I wonder what it's for?" Fishlegs asked curiously. "It's a little crazy that big building was here the entire time, and we didn't even notice it."

"Guys, take a look at this!" Astrid called as she looked over the bridge. "I know exactly what this place is!"

"Oh, yeah?" said Snotlout as they made their way towards her. "Let's hear it then because I'm lost."

"Look, this is a bridge that connects one building to the other or more like a passageway," she explained.

"A passageway?" Fishlegs frowned. "It's kinda wide for that, isn't it? Don't you think? There's even a forest… well, it's kinda a forest and kinda bedroom or something."

Fishlegs was right. The bridge had a number of trees growing on it, and there was a collection of furniture scattered around.

"Whatever, if they were dragging us through here while we were passed out, then they must have been taking us to another building for some reason or another," said Snotlout. "It's probably best that we don't know."

"You know full well what they were planning to do with us, there were planning to turn us into zombies," said Astrid bluntly.

Upon hearing this, the boys cringed with fear

"so what are we waiting for?" Chopper asked. "We've got to get out of here!"

"Yeah, I'm not going back in that coffin," said Fishlegs.

"Will you guys just stay quiet long enough for me to think," said Astrid.

"Think? What is that you think we should get out of here fast as possible!" Snotlout yelled.

"And run where?" Astrid asked. "This island is filled with zombies, and we don't know where Hiccup and the others are. Our best course of action is to find out more about this island."

"What is there to know? We already know this as a zombie-infested island," said Fishlegs.

Astrid sighed. "Haven't you guys been paying attention? I'm starting to think that the zombies aren't actually zombies."

"What makes you say that?" Chopper asked.

"We saw Hogback making a zombie and zombie samurai we encountered. Didn't you guys notice that he sounded and acted a lot like Skull?" Astrid asked.

"Yeah, that was rather strange," Fishlegs admitted.

"I can't say for certain, but I have a feeling that the zombies and Skull's shadow thief are somehow connected. And if we want to find that connection, we need more information."

"But maybe we should do that once we find Hiccup and the others; I mean, there's safety in numbers," said Fishlegs.

"Okay, if you guys want to run so badly, which direction do you want to go?" Astrid asked, placing her hand on her hips. "Forward or back?"

"That's a good question," said Snotlout. "If we had back to the mansion, we might run into that zombie samurai again, huh?"

"Yeah, but the other place might have even more tougher, even scarier zombies," said Chopper.

They then heard footsteps and turned a fine three penguins waddling their way to them with their backs to them.

"I don't think penguins are normally forest animals," said Astrid.

Fishlegs gulped. "Then you mean to say that they're…"

"Count off! One!" said one of the penguins spinning around, revealing it was wearing a bow tie.

"Two!" said the second penguin, which was wearing a scarf.

"Three!" said the third, who had a dog face.

It didn't take them long to figure out that these three penguins were, in fact, zombies, though admittedly, they didn't look as menacing as the zombies they had encountered previously.

"Howdy folks, they call us…" said the bowtied penguin.

"The Penguin zombie duo…" said the penguin with the scarf. "Wait, that's not right."

"Trio!" said the dog penguin. "We're a trio! I'm the new guy!"

"Who cares!" Snotlout snapped. "Not me, that's for sure!"

"Behind you is the rest of the crew," said the bowtied penguin.

"What?" they said.

They spun around and saw a number of zombie animals.

"Our friends, the Wild Zombies!"

"Welcome to Mistress Perona's Wonder Garden!" said the Wild Zombies.

"Those things are seriously freaky!" the four of them said in unison.

"Now let's beat them up to a bloodied pulp!" said the Kuala.

The Wild Zombies then immediately charged them, and Chopper was first to react by punching the snakelike zombie in the face. Astrid drew his sword and began duelling with the Kuala, who had drawn out the sword of his own.

"You guys go. We'll hold them off!" said Astrid as she pushed the Kuala back and quickly blocked a spear as Chopper punched zombie after zombie.

"But where are we supposed to run to?" Fishlegs asked. "They're zombies all over the place!"

"Plus, these guys are wild animals, so they can probably run faster than us anyway," said Snotlout.

Chopper began pushing the zombies back, but when he tried to punch the boar zombie blocked his punch with his shield. He was then forced to jump back in order to avoid getting crushed by a spiked ball and chain from a Panda.

"He looks like a human, but he acts like an animal like us," the Kuala noted. "How fascinating."

"That's right, I'm a reindeer, so what?" said Chopper.

"You must have Zoin Devil fruit powers," said the boar.

"We'll cut you some slack since we're animals too," said the Kuala. "If you get on your knees and beg for mercy, we'll only bloody you up a little bit."

"Your nuts; I'm nothing like you," Chopper spat.

"That so? Then I look forward to crushing you," said the Panda and swung his weapon once more at him.

Astrid was having a bit of difficulty, the sword she was welding was not a particularly good one compared to the blade belonging to the elephant she was trying to overpower.

"I get the feeling that you're struggling with that sword," said the elephant.

"Maybe, but in the end, it depends on how I use it!" Astrid yelled and quickly disarmed him there with all her might; she kicked him in the chest, sending him backwards.

Snotlout easily punched away the small animals that were coming after him and Fishlegs.

"We need to get out of here and hurry!" Snotlout yelled.

It was then that a zombie, which was a cross between a kangaroo and a zebra, hopped towards them wearing a pair of boxing gloves. Instinctively Snotlout raised his fists, ready to fight.

"You wanna fight, then bringing it you zebra kangaroo or kangaroo zebra, maybe?" Snotlout frowned. "Which one do you like better?"

The zombie merely responded by moving around with its fist still raised.

"I want you. I'm quite the proficient boxer," Snotlout warned. "Trust me when I say you don't want to mess with the Snot."

The zombie didn't look threatened in the slightest things continued flexing its arms.

"Okay, you asked for it, buddy!" said Snotlout. "Don't just come crying to me when I knock your teeth out! Eat this… Snot Punch!"

He then swung his fist at the zombie, but it easily doctored and then dealt a few powerful jabs across his face.

"You better quit while you're ahead," said Snotlout trying to stand straight.

Fishlegs was slowly backing away when he suddenly came across a bulldog with horns.

"I'll hunt you down wherever you go; you can't hide from a dog's sense of smell," he said.

"Dogs don't talk!" Fishlegs screamed.

He then promptly ran away with the Bulldog and several zombies hot on his tail.

Snotlout was still facing the zombie kangaroo, which was now hopping towards him. Snotlout tried to back away from it, but it moved with such impressive speed that seconds later, it was right behind him.

Then to make matters worse, zombie chimpanzees pounced on him, but all the moving around caused him to accidentally tripped over his own feet just as the zombie kangaroo swung a jab towards him. As a result, the zombie kangaroo mist and struck one of the zombie chimpanzees knocking it out cold.

"Uh, just as I planned," said Snotlout.

The surviving chimpanzee chastised the kangaroo for hitting his friend, who probably got back up at his feet. Then the zombie kangaroo and chimpanzees began chasing after Snotlout.

"Oh no!" Snotlout yelled and promptly ran away. "Don't hurt me. I love animals! I promise!"

He then collided with Fishlegs, and the two of them ran up a nearby staircase causing the zombies to trip over one another. Sadly they quickly picked themselves up and began chasing them down the stairs, which was proven to be a sort of maze. All of the stairs seemed to connect to one another, heading to nowhere in particular.

In fact, in as if they were going around in circles, a fact which was proven shortly as the zombie kangaroo turned around, and seconds later, they came face-to-face with it. They looked at one another for a few seconds before the kangaroo began chasing after them, and they quickly ran in the opposite direction.

The fact that they had been running around in circles was once again proven when they saw the zombies that had been chasing after them running up the stairs. They were now trapped with the zombies running up the stairs and the kangaroo running down them.

"This way!" Fishlegs yelled, grabbing Snotlout's hand and dragging him.

Then before Snotlout, they jumped a nearby pillar and then jumped to the one next to it, putting some fair distance between them and the zombies.

"That was close," said Snotlout relieved. He then got up and stuck his tongue out towards the zombies. "If you want some come over here and get it! What's that, you can't? I've got to keep all this booty to myself!"

He then spun around then pointed his butt towards them, slapping it.

Unfortunately for them, the kangaroo zombie was able to jump towards the pillar and then jumped once again towards them.

"No, no, stay over there!" Snotlout yelled.

"You have to antagonise them, didn't you?" said Fishlegs.

Then once again, they found themselves jumping from pillar to pillar with the zombie kangaroo hot on their heels.

"Take this!" Snotlout yelled and tossed a rock right at the kangaroo just as he jumped.

This caused the zombie kangaroo to fall towards the ground.

"I got plenty more where that came from!" Snotlout yelled.

Unfortunately, the pillar they were on then started to crumble, and they began falling towards the ground themselves, screaming.

On the ground, Astrid and Chopper were still fending off the Wild Zombies. No matter how many times they knocked them down, they got back right.

"If I had a more decent weapon, I would have taken them all down ages ago," Astrid cursed, looking down at her sword, which was badly nicked.

"And there's just too many of them for me to overpower," said Chopper.

They then all heard screaming and looked up in time to see both Snotlout and Fishlegs falling from the sky, landing on top of the Kuala.

"Fishlegs! Snotlout!" Chopper beamed.

"Astrid!" Chopper!" Fishlegs smiled back.

"Great right back where we started," Snotlout moaned.

The elephant zombie then raised his sword, ready to cut them down.

"Look out!" Astrid yelled, rushing in to block the attack.

She was able to block the sword but has so could stand the strain and snapped it in two.

"I'm coming to save the day!" Snotlout yelled, but before he could do anything, the zombie penguins kicked him to the ground hard.

"Are you okay?" Chopper asked, rushing over to him.

Fishlegs then saw the zombie Panda lifting his spikes, ball and chain. "Behind you! Chopper, look out!"

Too late, the Panda swung his spiked ball and chain, striking Chopper while his back was turned.

"No, Chopper!" Astrid yelled.

"Perhaps you should worry less about your friends and a bit more about yourself," the boar zombie advised behind her.

She spun around in time to see the zombie raising his sword, and there was no time for her to get out of the way. However, to everyone's surprise, the dog-faced penguin jumped in and kicked and kicked his fellow zombie with all his might.

"Don't you dare!" he yelled.

The boar zombie was sent flying across the bridge before hitting a wall, knocking him out cold. The other zombies immediately turned towards the penguin in disbelief.

"Hey, stupid! Whose side are you on anyway?"

"I know you're new here, but that girl is a pirate. Kick her ass!"

"I don't care who this lady is or where she came from; I don't even care if I have to disobey my master's orders," he said. "Attacking a lady while her back is turned is unacceptable!"

Everyone just stared at the penguin, stunned.

"If you are a problem with that, then bring it on, you piece of crap zombies," said the penguin.

Hiccup and the others were still searching for Astrid and the others, but now they were also looking for Ragnar.

"Ragnar, where are you?" Hiccup called and then turned on Oinkchuck. "Listen, pig, you better tell us where you took our friends already!"

"Like I said before, ask all you like. I don't know a thing," he said with a smirk.

"When we get cook back, we're making bacon out of you," Eret warned.

"Perhaps they were strangled, so they can't call out for help," Heather suggested.

"No more predictions out of you; they're way too depressing," said Eret.

"Yeah, can we have some positivity?" said Ruffnut.

"They might be just around the corner for all we know," said Tuffnut.

"And you're being way too positive," said Eret.

Hiccup then noticed that they were down a man. "Wait a second, when did we last see Toothless."

Unbeknownst to them, two pairs of glowing red eyes were looking down at them.